"Vic Singh then shot them with a prism lens that Harrison had given him. The cover was meant to resemble an LSD trip, a style that was favoured at the time. In 2017, the lens was displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, as part of the """" exhibition. Barrett came up with the album title ""The Piper at the Gates of Dawn""; the album was originally titled ""Projection"" up to as late as July 1967. The title was taken from that of chapter seven of Kenneth Grahame's ""The Wind in the Willows"" which contains a visionary encounter with the"
"Pan's character is both charming and selfish emphasizing our cultural confusion about whether human instincts are natural and good, or uncivilised and bad. J. M. Barrie describes Peter as ‘a betwixt and between’, part animal and part human, and uses this device to explore many issues of human and animal psychology within the Peter Pan stories. He is the eponymous ""Piper at the Gates of Dawn"" in the seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahame's ""The Wind in the Willows"" (1908). Grahame's Pan, unnamed but clearly recognisable, is a powerful but secretive nature-god, protector of animals, who casts a spell of forgetfulness"
"Chapter 7, ""The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"", Ratty and Mole meet a mystical horned being, powerful, fearsome and kind. Grahame's work was a significant part of the cultural milieu which stripped the Greek god Pan of his cultural identity in favor of an unnamed, generic horned deity which led to Murray's thesis of historical origins. Outside of works that predate the publication of Murray's thesis, horned god motifs and characters appear in fantasy literature that draws upon her work and that of her followers. In the novel ""Childhood's End"" (1953) by Arthur C. Clarke, all humans have a"
"is Sunday’s Dawn, Noon or Dusk). As they leave Arthur's house, they are ambushed by Sunday's Dawn and Noon; and the Piper's child reveals himself to be Lord Sunday in disguise. After chaining him up by his arms to a colossal dragonfly, (the form of transport commonly used in the Gardens) they fly him over the Gardens to a smaller replica of the clock face that the Old One is bound to. Arthur, his Keys overcome by the superior power of the Seventh Key, tries to escape by using his own innate powers to form something out of Nothing; he"
"Dream Days Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to the 1895 collection ""The Golden Age"" (some of its selections feature the same family of five children), ""Dream Days"" was first published in 1898 under the imprint John Lane: The Bodley Head. The first six selections in the book had been previously published in periodicals of the day – in ""The Yellow Book"" and the ""New Review"" in Britain and in ""Scribner's Magazine"" in the U.S. The book is best known for its inclusion of Grahame's classic story ""The"
"The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow-moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames Valley. In 1908, Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Berkshire, where he had lived as a child, and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as"
"Kenneth Grahame, including the music for a children's play based on the latter's ""The Wind in the Willows"" entitled ""Toad of Toad Hall"" (1929), which was successful and enjoyed many revivals. His settings of Milne's verse include a children's song cycle ""The Hums of Pooh"", based on verses from ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" and ""The House at Pooh Corner"". This was included in Julian Slade's 1970 adaptation of ""Winnie-the-Pooh"". He published six volumes of songs setting verses from Milne's ""When We Were Very Young"". They were first recorded for the gramophone by George Baker accompanied by Gerald Moore in 1930. His other songs"
"a mystical experience within the chapter ""The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"". (Later, the psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd's debut studio album took its name from that chapter.) Elsewhere, Robert Jordan's series ""The Wheel of Time"" features a character named Someshta, referred to as ""the Green Man"". He is the sole survivor of a race called the Nym, who were originally entrusted as the gardeners of the world, and who had the ability to manipulate the life and growth of plants around them. He first appears in book one, ""The Eye of the World"", in chapters 49 (""The Dark"
"childhood in Ardrishaig. There is a proposal that the idea for the story arose when its author saw a water vole beside the River Pang in Berkshire, southern England. A 29 hectare extension to the nature reserve at Moor Copse, near Tidmarsh Berkshire, was acquired in January 2007 by the Berks, Bucks, and Oxon Wildlife Trust. The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow-moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its"
"""The Hutchinson Treasury of Children's Literature"" edited by Alison Sage Philip Pullman, ""Northern Lights"" by Philip Pullman ""Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"" by J.K. Rowling ""Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"" by J.K. Rowling ""The Illustrated Mum"" by Jacqueline Wilson ""The Amber Spyglass"" by Philip Pullman ""Artemis Fowl"" by Eoin Colfer ""Girls in Tears"" by Jacqueline Wilson ""The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon ""The Gruffalo's Child"" by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler ""Breaking Dawn"" by Stephenie Meyer ""Zog"" by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler ""A Monster Calls"" by Patrick Ness ""Ratburger"" by"
"Beatrix Potter; ""The Wind in the Willows"" by Kenneth Grahame (1908); ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" (1926) and ""The House at Pooh Corner"" (1928) by A. A. Milne; and ""The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"" (1950) and the subsequent books in ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" series by C. S. Lewis. In many of these stories the animals can be seen as representing facets of human personality and character. As John Rowe Townsend remarks, discussing ""The Jungle Book"" in which the boy Mowgli must rely on his new friends the bear Baloo and the black panther Bagheera, ""The world of the jungle is in"
"been inspired by the mole in Hans Christian Andersen's ""Thumbelina"" or possibly Moley in Kenneth Grahame's ""The Wind in the Willows"". ""Diggory Delvet"" and the last rhyme in the book about a guinea pig are two of the few limericks written for children by someone other than Edward Lear. The sixth rhyme is a single stanza and accompanied by an illustration depicting a pig in a dress sitting in a high-backed chair and peeling potatoes: The seventh and last rhyme is a limerick about an ""amiable guinea-pig"" (the first guinea pig in Potter's work) who brushes his hair back like"
"heroes Kenneth and Grahame. The Reluctant Dragon (short story) ""The Reluctant Dragon"" is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame, originally published as a chapter in his book ""Dream Days"". It is Grahame's most famous short story, arguably better known than ""Dream Days"" itself or the related ""The Golden Age"". It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat. The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St. George did fight a dragon). In Grahame's"
"children's book ""Wind in the Willows"" by Kenneth Grahame: the locality used in the book is believed to be Moor Copse in Berkshire, England, and the character's name ""Ratty"" has become widely associated with the species and their riverbank habitat, as well as the misconception that they are a species of rat. In the comic novel and film ""Cold Comfort Farm"" by Stella Gibbons, one of the characters, Urk, refers to the subject of his unrequited love, Elfine Starkadder, as his little water vole. Throughout the story, Urk spends a lot of time talking to the water voles on the"
"Lewis. An early draft of ""The Lion"" begins, ""This book is about four children whose names were Ann, Martin, Rose, and Peter. But it is most about Peter who was the youngest."" Peter is the only name that makes it into the final work, but as the oldest child instead of the youngest. Pevensey, on the southeast coast of England, is the site of a medieval castle that figures importantly in British history at several points. In Rudyard Kipling's ""Puck of Pook's Hill"" (1907) at least one of the characters refers to Pevensey as ""England's Gate"", which the celebrated wardrobe"
"it. However the plans fell through and so far there is only a script no one knows if they will continue with the project or scrap it. Wings (Pike novel) Wings is the debut, young-adult faerie novel by author Aprilynne Pike. It is the first of four books about a fifteen-year-old girl who discovers she is a faerie sent among humans to guard the gateway to Avalon. ""Wings"" was released in the US, UK, and Canada on May 5, 2009, and became a ""New York Times"" best seller in its first week of sales, reaching #1 on the Children's Chapter"
"The Story of the Amulet The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes ""Five Children and It"" (1902) and ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"" (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psammead—the ""it"" in ""Five Children and It"". As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children's other discovery, the Amulet, thus following a formula successfully established in ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"". Gore Vidal writes,"
"tailpieces. The quality of the images in ""Dream Days"" inspired Lane to issue a matching edition of ""The Golden Age,"" with improved photogravure plates, in 1904. In the United States, the first edition of ""Dream Days"" sold for $1.25 per copy. Dream Days Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to the 1895 collection ""The Golden Age"" (some of its selections feature the same family of five children), ""Dream Days"" was first published in 1898 under the imprint John Lane: The Bodley Head. The first six selections in the"
"that Arthur's mother is trapped in a time loop and is being displayed as an exhibit in the Incomparable Gardens. He cannot interact with her; when he looks out of the windows he can see nothing but green leaves draped against them. Soon after, a Piper's child (employed as a gardener) enters the house with a flaming pitchfork; Arthur grabs and deactivates it, and forces the boy to lead him out of the house. The boy professes not to have heard of the upheavals among the Trustees; he thinks Arthur is the Reaper (leading Arthur to suspect that the Reaper"
"and simplified form for younger readers. Additional series have been written to tell the stories of Wilder’s mother, ""The Caroline Years"", her grandmother, ""The Charlotte Years"", and her daughter, ""The Rose Years"". There are also ""Little House"" themed craft, music, and cookbooks. Little Town on the Prairie Little Town on the Prairie is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1941, the seventh of nine books in her ""Little House"" series. It is set in De Smet, South Dakota. It opens in the spring after the Long Winter, and ends as Wilder becomes a schoolteacher"
"home with Rat where he rediscovers, with Rat's help, a familiar comfort, despite finding it in a terrible mess after his abortive spring clean. ""The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"" tells how Mole and Rat search for Otter's missing son Portly, whom they find in the care of the god Pan. (Pan removes their memories of this meeting """"lest the awful remembrance should remain and grow, and overshadow mirth and pleasure"""".) Finally, in ""Wayfarers All"", Ratty shows a restless side to his character when he is sorely tempted to join a Sea Rat on his travelling adventures. The original"
"again for the stage in 2016 musical by Julian Fellowes. Kenneth Grahame was born on 8 March 1859 in Edinburgh. When he was 5, his mother died from puerperal fever, and his father, who had a drinking problem, gave the care of his four children over to their grandmother, who lived in Cookham Dean in Berkshire. There they lived in a spacious but dilapidated home, ""The Mount"", in extensive grounds by the River Thames, and were introduced to the riverside and boating by their uncle, David Ingles, curate at Cookham Dean church. At Christmas 1865 the chimney of the house"
"of two drops of quicksilver (Mercury) merging from Nesbit’s ""The Story of the Amulet"" and described her work as the “pleasantest reading of my childhood”. The Story of the Amulet The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes ""Five Children and It"" (1902) and ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"" (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psammead—the ""it"" in ""Five Children and It"". As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly"
"Piper's army, accidentally picks up Leaf's sword, and with it the post of Lieutenant-Keeper of the Front Door. Arthur battles with Lord Sunday, who also has to contend with an invasion by the combined forces of the Piper and the subservient Saturday. The battle is taken to the Elysium, the epicenter of creation; it is here that the seventh part of the Will (a withered apple tree) is kept in a gilt cage. The Mariner opens it at Arthur's behest, but is killed in the process. The freed Will traps Sunday while Arthur claims the Seventh Key (in the form"
"Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a novel by J. M. Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and published by Hodder & Stoughton in late November or early December 1906; it is one of four major literary works by Barrie featuring the widely known literary character he created, Peter Pan. Peter is a seven-day-old infant who, ""like all infants"", used to be part bird. Peter has complete faith in his flying abilities, so, upon hearing a discussion of his adult life, he is able to escape out of the window of his London home and return"
"The Reluctant Dragon (short story) ""The Reluctant Dragon"" is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame, originally published as a chapter in his book ""Dream Days"". It is Grahame's most famous short story, arguably better known than ""Dream Days"" itself or the related ""The Golden Age"". It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat. The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St. George did fight a dragon). In Grahame's story, a young boy"
"Grandfather and the voice of Phoenix, and Dee Wallace as Mother. The Phoenix and the Carpet The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that begins with ""Five Children and It"" (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five children: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace one from the nursery that they have destroyed in an accidental fire. The children find an egg in the carpet, which"
"of friends growing up in a small bayside community called Harting Farms, Maryland, located on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay.The novel is narrated by 15-year-old Angelo ""Angie"" Mazzone, who relays the story of a child abductor and murderer who has been plaguing his hometown called the Pied Piper by local police.When the novel opens, Angie and his two best friends, Scott Steeple and Peter Galloway, witness local police extricating the body of a dead girl from the woods that surrounds December Park, a local suburban park. Later, they inform their friend Michael Sugarland of what they saw, and each"
"Kensington Gardens"", with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. The text of this version is almost identical to those chapters, with minor changes to the text to read better without the surrounding story. It was presented as a book for children, many of whom had experienced Peter Pan's exploits in the successful stage play. Although sometimes described as a prelude or (less correctly) prequel to the better-known story told in the play and novel, there are inconsistencies which make the two stories incompatible with each other. Most significant is the character of Peter Pan himself, who is said to be only seven"
"back into fashion. In 1908, Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) wrote the children's classic ""The Wind in the Willows"". An informal literary discussion group associated with the English faculty at the University of Oxford, were the ""Inklings"". Its leading members were the major fantasy novelists; C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Lewis is especially known for ""The Chronicles of Narnia"", while Tolkien is best known as the author of ""The Hobbit"" and ""The Lord of the Rings"". Another significant writer is Alan Garner author of ""Elidor"" (1965), while Terry Pratchett is a more recent fantasy writer. Roald Dahl rose to prominence with his"
"there is a poem entitled ""The Green Man"". Ronald Johnson also wrote a book-length poem sequence, ""The Book of the Green Man"". The premise has even made its way into comics, most notably with the character of Swamp Thing. Green men, and variants on the theme, frequently occur in modern fantasy literature and science fiction. Tom Bombadil and the Ents in ""The Lord of the Rings"" could be considered possible examples. In Kenneth Grahame's 1908 children's classic ""The Wind in the Willows"", a depiction of a natural deity, analogous with Pan and Green Man legend, appears as the climax of"
"the Piper. The Piper is sent to follow after the children. The Milksop goes after the group of robbers, but Fenoglio saves them by writing giant human nests up in the trees. Mo goes off in secret with Dustfinger, Violante, and her legion of child soldiers to the castle in the lake, where the white book is kept. In the meantime, Orpheus has put himself in the service of the Adderhead, in the hopes of picking the winning team but doesn't because Mo has a few tricks up his sleeve. He is also plagued by visits from a now insane"
"in the 1970s. In 1986, MacDonald observed that the Potter books had become a traditional part of childhood in both English-speaking lands and those in which the books had been translated. The Tale of Tom Kitten The Tale of Tom Kitten is a children's book, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was released by Frederick Warne & Co. in September 1907. The tale is about manners and how children react to them. Tabitha Twitchit, a cat, invites friends for tea. She washes and dresses her three kittens for the party, but within moments the kittens have soiled and lost"